Blampied fire brought under control in Vic

The fire started on Friday afternoon about 4.5km northwest of Blampied, which is about 120km northwest of Melbourne, and was initially burning about 500 hectares.

The CFA issued an emergency warning just after 3pm (AEDT) for the towns of Kangaroo Hills, Kingston, Leonards Hill, Mount Prospect, Sailors Falls and Muskvale but it has now been downgraded to a watch and act alert.

CFA operations officer David Harris said the fire had been quite difficult to contain but firefighters had been successful.

The fire started close to a camp with about 100 children but all were OK and with firefighters, Mr Harris said.